Anna Havron

I just visited with my widowed mother, who is living in a deteriorating smart house.

Part of a series on recombobulation.

Time management is a modern sport.

You may have noticed that this blog and that my other blog at analogoffice.net have been fairly quiet for the last few months.

What does it mean to be spiritual?

In the past six weeks: I changed jobs I moved out of a house we had to replace a car I had to replace my computer one family member has been hospitalized a couple of times I traveled out of state to visit them I took another family member to the emergency…

Right now I’m going through a big transition: I’m changing jobs.

One of the loveliest concepts I learned about in seminary is the idea and practice of being a “non-anxious presence.”

Sharing a talk I gave last week, as one of the presenters at micro.blog’s annual Micro Camp.

Spring is well and truly complete, here.

Social scientist Jean Twenge, in her new book Generations, argues that generational divides are marked by technological change far more than living through historic events together.

Back from a wonderful visit to New York City, where we saw this hawk at the new Little Island park in Manhattan, on the Hudson River.

Often the question that drives people’s initial interest in productivity is: “How am I going to get everything done?”

One of the things that fascinates me about how monastic orders use time, is that they prioritize things that will not make a profit: activities like contemplation, and community service.

In her “autobifictionalography” One!

When you know your roles, you know your rules.

I write things down in order to get things done.

In my last post, I wrote about how ceremonial objects can shift your mindset, and help you do hard things.

On Christmas Eve, our church sanctuary is lit and warmed with over a hundred flickering candles, in eight foot tall iron candelabras, secured on the ends of the pews.

Most advice books about personal organization are broadly aimed in two directions: task and work flow for knowledge work (managing the constant stream of messages and meetings), and task and work flow for the home (managing the constant stream of meals, d…